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gold rush
Stunning Photos of a Siberian Gold Mine Only Accessible by Air–Or Ice Road
art
See Avant-Garde Soviet Bus Shelters Before They Disappear
arcades
The Alternate Universe of Soviet Arcade Games
Skulte, Latvia
Riga Aviation Museum
A vast and unlikely aviation museum kept alive for over 50 years due to one man's tenacity.
soviet history
The Soviet Military Secret That Could Become Alaska's Most Valuable Crop
Permanently Closed
Amsterdam, Netherlands
The Totalitarian Art Gallery
This basement museum explores the art and artistry of fascism.
Jersey City, New Jersey
The Katyń Massacre Memorial
This evocative New Jersey statue memoralizes the Polish victims of a Soviet massacre.
Tartu, Estonia
Museum of KGB Cells
The secret cells in the basement of the KGB's Estonian "Grey House" have been preserved as a grim Cold War museum.
Budapest, Hungary
The Citadella
From Austrians to Nazis to Soviets, this historic Budapest fortress has a history as complex as the city itself.
Ämari, Estonia
Ämari Pilots’ Cemetery
This soviet pilot's graveyard is filled with headstones made of airplane fins.
Chiatura, Georgia
The Cable Cars of Chiatura
These Stalin-era industrial 'death traps' hang lifeless above the city
Brest, Belarus
Brest Hero-Fortress
Thanks to its heroic service during WWII this Soviet castle has been turned into a monument towered over by a brutalist titan.
abandoned
Nuclear Vogelsang: The Lost Soviet City Everyone Wants to Disappear
Kyiv, Ukraine
Museum of the Great Patriotic War
One of the largest museums in Ukraine remembers the story of the German-Soviet War in iconic, brutalist style.
abandoned
Where Mass Tourism Overrides Memorialization, Chernobyl Is Far from a Time Capsule
nature
Metamorphosis of a Dismal Frontier: The European Green Belt
abandoned
Soviet Ghosts: Photographs from a Shredded Iron Curtain
communist architecture
Finding the Real Transnistria: Where the Soviet Union Forgot to Die
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